Yankees Fast Homer Starts
Posted by Steve L. on April 29th, 2009 · Comments (0)
Here’s a fun list via Baseball-Reference.com. It’s Yankees, since 1954, who had 10+ games, within the team’s first 40 games of a season, where they had one or more homeruns in a game:
Year Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+ Mickey Mantle 1956 16 Ind. Games Tino Martinez 1997 13 Ind. Games Alfonso Soriano 2003 12 Ind. Games Alex Rodriguez 2007 12 Ind. Games Joe Pepitone 1969 12 Ind. Games Yogi Berra 1956 12 Ind. Games Tino Martinez 2005 11 Ind. Games Mickey Mantle 1967 11 Ind. Games Alex Rodriguez 2005 10 Ind. Games Jorge Posada 2003 10 Ind. Games Roger Maris 1960 10 Ind. Games Roger Maris 1961 10 Ind. Games Mickey Mantle 1957 10 Ind. Games Mickey Mantle 1961 10 Ind. Games Jason Giambi 2006 10 Ind. Games
I wonder if Robbie Cano can add his name to the list this season? He’s got four 1+ homer games now in the first twenty games of 2009…
